Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Having received the file containing
the new edits for “I Kissed a Ghost,” this past week, I’ve been quite busy
slowly making all the suggested changes. I’ve already completed the grammar,
punctuation, etc. corrections; and have begun the line editing suggestions made
by the editor who had worked on my book. In this sort of editing, the editor
concentrates on telling authors where they need to consider making chances to enhance
and improve the consistency of what they’re saying, enhance what they’re saying
and how they’re saying it, as well as the flow of ideas within the storyline.
This I quickly began to realize is something which can’t be rushed through as
you need to think whether you want to consider the suggestions being made; and then,
how you’re going to go about making it. Given the rate I’ve got through the chapters
I’ve already done, I envision my being to finish this re-editing process by the
end of the month. I just hope I won’t have any other priorities get in the way,
like they’ve already done.BTW – as of
the writing of this entry, I’m about 20% finished.

My completing the GoodReads reading
challenge has fallen behind so much, and with my wanting to complete all my
writing endeavors by the end of the year, I’ve decided to reduce my goal from
200 books read/reviewed to 150.I
extremely doubt I’ll be moving these endeavors into the next step of
self-publishing, that of being edited, due to the lack of funds, especially
since I’ve already gone into a little debt with this editing. If anyone is
interested in helping me raise the funds I need, and if you’ve got KINDLE
Unlimited, just download my book of 100 Flash Fictions, “Micro Fiction – An
Anthology,” and go through the book. If you can leave a review, it would also
be greatly appreciated as well.

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Due to my involvement with several
endeavors, I haven’t really read/reviewed any books for the past 6 - 8 weeks.
In addition, during the past month [May 8th – June 7th] I
only read eight books, which coincided with Amazon not making any changes to
its Reviewer Ranking. So, now I’ve got 534 books reviewed on Amazon with an
Amazon Reviewer Ranking of 2,258. When I check GoodReads for this year’s
reading challenge, I’ve only read/reviewed 70 books out of my goal of 200 books
for 2017; which according to GoodReads makes me 17 books behind schedule. This
will now cause me to concentrate most of my efforts in the reading/reviewing of
books.

What I did during most of this time
had come to get the funds I need to have my debut romance novel, a MG/YA paranormal
novel, “I Kissed a Ghost,” totally re-edited. Although I didn’t have all the
necessary funds in place, I’m having it done anyway; which is why I’ve removed
this book from being available on Amazon in all of its formats.

After taking a few days simply to
rest, I’m back; and one of first things I’m doing is getting the word out that
I’ll be donating a portion of the royalties I received for my second book, “Micro
Fiction – An Anthology” for June 2017 to a local animal where my dear OH and I had adopted a
cat to replace the second of our two previous cats; this one had died at the
age of 20 [and had been diabetic for over 7 years.]

If anyone is interested in supporting
me in this endeavor, here’s the link for the book. The book is available as a
paperback, KINDLE, and KINDLE Unlimited [and I received royalties for each of
these formats]. I would appreciate any support you can give.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to get back to
completing my manuscript of my adult Contemporary romance, “His Darkest Secret,”
which is about 85% completed. I’m in no real rush as I would need to get the
financing for the editing, etc to get it self-published. Once this manuscript
is completed, it’s on to my MG/YA Urban Fantasy entitled “The Secret of the
Well,” which is a stand-alone sequel to “I Kissed a Ghost.”

None of this includes any of the
endeavors, my erotic self, is working on. In the end, I can only pray for an
upsurge in the sales of my books, or win several lottery drawings where I don’t
have to pay any taxes.

Regardless, I love writing romance and
interacting with my followers, since this gives me, as a Senior Citizen [66],
something to do each day besides watching cable most of the day with my dear OH
with whom I’ve been married for 23 years [no children = :-( ]

Sunday, June 4, 2017

If
you have a blog, and you should. I’ve got “sister” blog sites, namely
Blogspot.com and WordPress.com, where I post the same entry each time I post
something; the reason being some readers prefer one over the other.

When you decide to post
something, try to stick to the same set of topics; usually topics which readers
of your genre [target audience] might find interesting. Which is something you
need to do on a regular on-going basis, something which I’ve been negligent in
doing myself; and the topics you chose to post should be able to connect to
your potential readers and attract/hold their interest.

Friday, June 2, 2017

As I promised, I’m beginning to post the type of
entries I used to. This week's prompt for the Haiku Horizons site is "SUBMIT" [https://haikuhorizons.wordpress.com] and here are my three Haiku response endeavors:

About Me

I’m
a retired NYCity employee who’s been married for 22 sans
children.“I Kissed a Ghost”, a YA
[Young Adult] Paranormal/Time Travel/First Kiss romance, is my debut romance novel which got released in December 2012.

On December 1, 2014 - I released my second book, "Micro Fiction - An Anthology"

I’m in the process of writing several books:

An adult Contemporary with
a paranormal element running through parts of the storyline entitled “His
Darkest Secret." A MG/YA Urban Fantasy novella titled "The Secret of the Well" which is a stand-alone sequel to my first book.

In August of 2014, I began my 2nd second career, that of a Book Reviewer, As of July 8, 2016 I've read/reviewed 333 books, and my Amazon Reviewer Ranking is 4,662. I must be doing something right.